Recorded answers
36,048 recorded answers
How to approach it
The trick is to treat the prompt as a wide funnel rather than a popularity contest. Begin with the people you know best, then deliberately travel to countries whose politics rarely make headlines and reconstruct a name from a roster you remember. National legislatures publish member lists, so recall a chamber you have read about — a small assembly, a federal upper house, a coalition partner's bench — and pick a single sitting member. Verify mentally that the person holds office now, not a decade ago. Then consider the scoring logic: the puzzle rewards answers that many people can confirm but few will think of, so an accurate, verifiable name from an overlooked country beats a famous one almost every time.
Get a hint
Start at the very top of the executive ladder: heads of government, their deputies and the senior ministers who were in office this week.
A little more
Narrow by chamber instead: a single seat in a national legislature is enough, so think of backbenchers, whips and committee chairs as well as speakers.
One step further
Go for depth over fame: a member of a small national assembly or a junior minister in a country that rarely makes the news usually scores higher than a household-name premier.
Reveal answers 36,048
- Jacek CzerniakDeep Cut85points
- Jacek KarnowskiDeep Cut85points
- Jacek NiedźwiedzkiDeep Cut85points
- Jacek OsuchDeep Cut85points
- Jacek SasinDeep Cut85points
- Jacek ŚwiatDeep Cut85points
- Jacek TomczakDeep Cut85points
- Jacek TrelaDeep Cut85points
- Jacinta Athieno AyoDeep Cut85points
- Jacinta Nampijinpa PriceDeep Cut85points
- Jacinth Henry-MartinDeep Cut85points
- Jack AbbottDeep Cut85points
- Jack BergmanDeep Cut85points
- Jack BloomDeep Cut85points
- Jack ChambersDeep Cut85points
- Jack J. AdingDeep Cut85points
- Jack McConnellDeep Cut85points
- Jack MiddletonDeep Cut85points
- Jack Norris KalmetDeep Cut85points
- Jack RankinDeep Cut85points
- Jack ReedDeep Cut85points
- Jack RochaDeep Cut85points
- Jack SabiitiDeep Cut85points
- Jack WambokaDeep Cut85points
- Jackeline MunozDeep Cut85points
- Jackie BaillieDeep Cut85points
- Jackie DunbarDeep Cut85points
- Jacklet AtuhaireDeep Cut85points
- Jackline Adut Deng JuachDeep Cut85points
- Jackline Benjamin LadoDeep Cut85points
- Jackline Mathew GazaDeep Cut85points
- Jackson Bakoo CharlesDeep Cut85points
- Jackson BiciDeep Cut85points
- Jackson LamDeep Cut85points
- Jackson LessaDeep Cut85points
- Jackson MandagoDeep Cut85points
- Jackson T. SoramDeep Cut85points
- Jacky Mahafaly TsiandopyDeep Cut85points
- Jacky RosenDeep Cut85points
- Jacob Boy MamaboloDeep Cut85points
- Jacob CollierDeep Cut85points
- Jacob Dau KuolDeep Cut85points
- Jacob HarrisDeep Cut85points
- Jacob HelbergDeep Cut85points
- Jacob JensenDeep Cut85points
- Jacob KaimenyiDeep Cut85points
- Jacob KelebengDeep Cut85points
- Jacob Kop MakiDeep Cut85points
- Jacob MantleDeep Cut85points
- Jacob MarkDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Scoring here is driven by rarity rather than prominence. The single hundred-point answer, Michael Dobbs, sits alone at the top precisely because almost nobody else named that individual, while the enormous 85-point band contains tens of thousands of sitting members drawn from national chambers across every continent, from A B M Mosharrof Hossain and A. A. Rahim to Aaron Bean and Abdoulaye Diop. Those answers were correct, current and specific enough to satisfy the checker, yet common enough among players that they landed in the second tier. Below them, the 60-point group of 328 answers was presumably made up of figures who were either extremely well known, slightly stale in office, or generically described in a way that reduced their value. The lesson is blunt: a verifiable backbencher from a legislature nobody discusses is worth more than a prime minister everyone recognises, and a precise full name outperforms a vague one.